Is it possible add a secured scheme without knowing the security type in advance ?

[LiorKirsch]

Let say I know the network name and the password in advance but I am not sure exactly what type of security it uses (WEP or WPA).

Is it possible to add such a scheme without providing the security type ? Than let the computer identify the security type when it scans and recognize the network.

Thanks Lior

• I noticed that by default it uses WEP. Another way to do this is to leave it as WEP and than if you find that the network type is WPA change the scheme.

[rockymeza]

Hey @LiorKirsch,

I'm having a little trouble understanding what it is that you are doing, but have you seen the configuration function in wifi/scheme.py? I think it might do what you are thinking, but I'm not sure.

Are you trying to save a scheme before getting a Cell object? I suppose we could make that possible, but it would mean changing how wifi saves things completely--which is something I'm not completely opposed to. I was wondering if we could get rid of the whole saving a scheme requirement altogether.

[LiorKirsch]

:) I forgot I made a change to my code.

In my case I have a bunch of network names and password in advanced and I wanted to add the schemes even if I am not around the cell. So I created a dummy cell and sent it to a scheme

newCell = wifi.Cell.from_string( dummy_network_string)
scheme = wifi.Scheme.for_cell(network_interface, name, newCell, passkey=passkey_ascii)

This is exactly like you said I wanted to save a scheme without getting a Cell object.

I guess what I will do now is instead of the saving the scheme in advance is to store the (SSID,PASS) somewhere until I scan for the cell, only than I will add the scheme.

Many thanks, Lior

[rockymeza]

This is a good use case that is not at all easy with the code as it is now. I'm going to be very busy for the next couple of weeks, but I want to think about how to support this well. I'm going to keep thinking about this for a while, k?

-rocky

:) I forgot I made a change to my code.

In my case I have a bunch of network names and password in advanced and I wanted to add the schemes even if I am not around the cell. So I created a dummy cell and sent it to a scheme

newCell = wifi.Cell.from_string( dummy_network_string) scheme = wifi.Scheme.for_cell(network_interface, name, newCell, passkey=passkey_ascii)

This is exactly like you said I wanted to save a scheme without getting a Cell object.

I guess what I will do now is instead of the saving the scheme in advance is to store the (SSID,PASS) somewhere until I scan for the cell, only than I will add the scheme.

Many thanks, Lior

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